In the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power, but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.The cause whereof …

Man gives indifferent names to one and the same thing from the difference of their own passions; as they that approve a private opinion call it opinion; but th…

By Manners, I mean not here decency of behaviour; as how one man should salute another, or how a man should wash his mouth, or pick his teeth before company, a…

Il m'a trop bien servi; Augmentant mon pouvoir, il me l'a tout ravi: II n'est plus mon sujet qu'autant qu'il le veut etre. Et qui me fait regner en effet est m…

Hitler was basically an artist.

There are those in America today who have come to depend absolutely on government for their security. And when government fails they seek to rectify that failu…